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Old November 24th, 2004, 06:21 PM
Doug Freyburger
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Dropped 30 wrote:

Yeah, I find now I am eating the same things all the time out of
convenience.


If you're on Atkins the book warns against lack of variety. Many
plans do because variety is the right thing to do.

I cook for the whole family and find I am eating green beans as one of my
only veggies!


Time to cease eating green beans for at least a week then.

Big Salad


I thought you wrote that green beans were your only veggie?
Salads count. Not much carb count but they are veggie.

Any suggestions? Cheap quick veggie recipes? Quick cheap recipes in general?


At this point it isn't the recipes it's the *shopping*.

Go to the store and buy stuff you've never bought before or haven't
bought for a long time. This may be difficult because you may have
mental filters that make you ignore items you don't normally buy
so take your time to actually look at every item in the grocer
section. Buy several types of allowed veggies. Look for the cheap
meats that are on sale but look for the ones you haven't gotten
recently No, that expensive buffalo steak in the specialty case
isn't what I mean until you have more bucks ;^). More like that
big pork roast on sale this week, or those discount turkey parts.

Once you get home with different stuff, you won't be able to eat
the exact same menu. Sounds dumb because most people think in
terms of having aq recipe and then shopping for it and this runs the
other direction, but it works very well.

So you see rappini on sale, or something with a name you don't
recognize. Look it over, see if it's a low carb veggie (rappini
is), and buy it. If you don't recognize its name, it IS variety!